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Tough Time Sleeping Next to Your Partner? These Technologies Might Help

Has your relationship gone to the dogs? It might be your mattress. A new breed of beds has been designed to stop the arguments and help mismatched sleeping couples wake refreshed

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Rachel Jacoby Zoldan

April 19, 2018 1:56 p.m. ET

MORNING EVANGELISTS swear that an early rise helps increase productivity, so in 2018 I’ve aimed to get up with the sun. My husband, however, curls into a ball at the mere idea of 8 a.m. I bought him a sleep mask so we don’t start our days angry, but these cracks at dawn have been the tipping point of an incompatible sleep relationship that has plagued our marriage for the last five years.

Partnered sleep provides fertile ground for fighting, with couples having competing requirements for what makes a good night’s rest. In...